{"id":428,"date":"2007-09-05T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T14:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/09\/05\/japan-day-1\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T01:14:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T05:14:12","slug":"japan-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2007: Day 1 (Convenience Stores and Shopping Malls)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Day0- Sleepy Saitama\" id=\"image421\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/sleepy-saitama.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in Japan. Above you can see Saitama just north of Tokyo, where we&#8217;re staying for much of our trip. It&#8217;s very hot and very humid here, but sitting here under some lovely A\/C and looking back over today&#8217;s photos? It&#8217;s damned lovely. Also? I&#8217;M IN JAPAN. Everything is wonderful so far.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"japanese-water.jpg\" id=\"image422\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/japanese-water.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been up for 28 hours, so after arriving at Narita and taking the train through Tokyo everything is awesome. Variety stores. A mall. Bookstores, arcades, all of it. It&#8217;s absolutely amazing and I&#8217;m very tired and don&#8217;t have much to add. So! Here&#8217;s some more pictures (after the cut).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"arcade-exterior.jpg\" id=\"image423\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/arcade-exterior.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"arcade-taiko-drum-game.jpg\" id=\"image424\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/arcade-taiko-drum-game.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"manga-at-the-bookstore.jpg\" id=\"image425\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/manga-at-the-bookstore.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is one of 4 aisles of manga at a mall bookstore. Sort of Waldenbooks sized. They had a huge selection of stuff. Just right of dead-center in this picture is the sign for the BOY&#8217;S LOVE section. So much BL\/Yaoi&#8230; they&#8217;ll never, ever run out of work to license.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"the-september-new-manga-releases.jpg\" id=\"image426\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/the-september-new-manga-releases.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was posted in the store. It is, I swear to god, just the itemized manga releases for the month of September.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"andrew-and-chris-in-the-mall.jpg\" id=\"image427\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/andrew-and-chris-in-the-mall.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sooo tired&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Japan. Above you can see Saitama just north of Tokyo, where we&#8217;re staying for much of our trip. It&#8217;s very hot and very humid here, but sitting here under some lovely A\/C and looking back over today&#8217;s photos? It&#8217;s damned lovely. Also? I&#8217;M IN JAPAN. Everything is wonderful so far. I&#8217;ve been up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Japan 2007: Day 1 (Convenience Stores and Shopping Malls)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-japan","category-manga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}